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Indians Beat Up Kenyan Student, Thinking She is a Nigerian The racist mob in India is far from being cured of its insanity, as it attacked yet another African from Kenya. The 24-year-old Kenyan woman was dragged out of a taxi on Wednesday and bashed by the mob, which mistook her for a Nigerian. Coming just two days after a mob thrashed six Nigerians and a Congolese inside Greater Noida’s Ansal Plaza in Uttar Pradesh on Monday evening, the fresh attack has left most Africans in the area too afraid to step out of their houses, according to Times of India. Maria Burendi, the Kenyan, said she left her home in Alistonia society at 6.15am to collect an African wig and some food from a friend at DPS Society. On the way, she said the cab was stopped at 6.30am near the Omicorn roundabout by 10-12 men who then beat her up. “They stopped the car and asked me to get out,” Maria told TOI over the phone. “When the cabbie and I stepped out, they started slapping me saying that Nig...

 Buhari, Kwankwaso Launch Coordinated Attack On Yorubas: VP Osibanjo Cowed, Tinubu  Silent *** It is an insult to the Yoruba traditional institution, that a Monarch was hurriedly taken from his palace and paraded alongside the suspects,- OPC *** “Calls for restructuring and true Federalism in Nigeria could not have been better amplified by this one-sided injustice displayed by the Federal Government and its security agents”, the group lamented.- OPC The Yoruba Socio-Cultural group, Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, has fingered the former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwanso, for the spate of arrests of suspects in the probe into the clash between Hausa and indigenes of Ile-Ife, Osun State, recently. Recall, that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, had not uttered a word to condemn the Hausa/Ile Ife clash, that claimed many lives. The organisation came down hard on Kwankwanso, whom it accused of racing down to Os...

Edo APC chieftain remanded in prison for treason, civil disturbance A major leader of the APC in Egor Local Government Area and Edo State leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Chief Odion Olaye, has been remanded in prison custody in Benin City. Chief Olaye was remanded Friday by a Benin City magistrate court after he was charged by the police for Treason, Civil disturbances and promoting inter tribal war using a group known as the Benin Solidarity Movement. Last week two APC leaders in Benin City, Chief Odion Olaye and Mr Curtis Ugbo, led a protest in Benin City, alleging that the Itsekiri were annexing their land in Gelegele, where the state government intends to build an Export Processing Zone. The Itsekiri leaders in Edo state refuted the alegation, claiming that they are “not territorially ambitious”. The other APC youth leader and former Senior Special Assistant to Adams Oshiomhole, who was attested by the Police, is Mr Curtis Egh...

 Cynthia Osokogu’s Killers To Die By Hanging - Court Justice Olabisi Akinlade of an Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Thursday sentenced to death, two of the four persons accused of killing Cynthia Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student. The accused Okwumo Nwabufo, and Olisaeloka Ezike, the judge ruled, will die by hanging. Osokogu was murdered on 22 July 2012 at Cosmilla Hotel, Lakeview Estate, Festac Town, Lagos, after she was lured to Lagos by her Facebook lover. The other accused were Orji Osita, 33, who is a pharmacist and Ezike Nonso, 25,. the younger brother of Olisaeloka Ezike. They were discharged and acquitted by Justice Akinlade. All the accused faced a six-count charge of conspiracy, murder, stealing, recklessness, negligence and possession of stolen goods. Justice Akinlade found Nwabufo and Olisaeloka guilty of four counts of stealing, murder, conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to murder preferred against them. ...

Nominee for Judge in Court of Appeal was Indicted for Fraud in the UK  On February 22, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, published the names of 12 lawyers it said had been shortlisted for appointment as Court of Appeal judges after an intensive two-day screening exercise that involved 187 lawyers. In a statement announcing the shortlist, the NBA explained that the exercise was in response to the call by the President of the Court of Appeal for it to nominate “suitably qualified candidates” to be considered for appointment as judges into the second highest court in the country. Investigations has revealed that one of the finalists, Rita Chris-Garuba, formerly Rita Kuku, in 2000, was indicted for a series of professional misconduct, including putting clients’ funds to her own use, and a £250,000.00 mortgage fraud in the United Kingdom where she worked as a solicitor. After an indictment, the Law Society of England and Wales described Mrs. Chris-Garuba as ...

Governor Al-Makura’s Son to Face Manslaughter Charge Mr. Khaleel Umar Al-Makura, son of the Nasarawa State Governor, Umar Al-Makura, is to be prosecuted for alleged manslaughter. He was arrested on Tuesday for the killing of a student of Government Secondary School, Lafia. Confirming this, the police said Khaleed would be charged soon, reported the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The killing of Ovye Amos in a road accident on Monday night sparked a protest in the school. The students took to the streets on Tuesday carrying placards with various inscriptions demanding justice for the killing of Amos, a Junior Secondary School, Class Two student. The police, officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), teachers and government officials had intervened to calm the angry students. The governor’s son was reported to have hit the deceased with a car, Channels TV reported. Addressing the students at the school parade ground, the Nasarawa St...

Edo Police invade a party in Ekpoma, brutalise 60 students, demand 20,000 Naira bail from each . Over 50 males and females were arrested yesterday at His Banner Hotel in Ekpoma by the anti-cultist unit of the Edo State police command. A party was organized by a student simply identified as Chima, the daughter of a popular pastor who also has a machine spare parts store along Dova road in Ekpoma It was gathered that the men of the anti-cultist division stormed the party, brutalized the invitees, arrested the DJ and tied them all together before throwing them into their van. They were taken to the police station where as at the time of filing this report, many are yet to be freed until they bailed themselves with N20,000-N25,000 per person. According to the information gathered from the DJ who lamented the ill treatment himself and his boy received, the policemen ordered them to take off their clothes and used cutlass to beat them up as they were led t...